EXECUTOR - Ship Of The Week #20 4/30/2015

[MacLeod]

Something to note about the destruction of the Executor.

Prior to its bridge deflector shield being knocked out it was under heavy bombardment from all avalible rebel ships. Admiral Akbar had ordered all firepower to focus on the super star destroyer.

Both sensor domes on top of the tower were destroyed. This might have caused the bridge deflector to fail or was the first indication to the ship's crew that the deflector had failed. The A-wing that smashed thougth the bridge exploding somewhere inside the superstucture as the whole tower starts to blow and the underside of the ship opposite the bridge tower is also spewing fire (in fact the plume on the underside is far larger than the one from the bridge tower). That would likely mean that engineering was also hit, or the blast traveled down the tower and took out more sytems than just the bridge. Likely it was the additional firepower of the Rebel fleet into the opening the A-wing provided finished her off.

Executor, and the Imperial fleet had followed the Rebels into low orbit of the Death Star. With its systems compromised the giant super star destroyers was caught in the gravity well and pulled into it, there seems to have not been enough time for secondary systems to kick in, or perhaps the crew was trying to get orders, not knowning the bridge was gone. Whatever the case, they were unable to solve the problem in time and she impacted with the surface of the Death Star II.

I think those domes are the deflector generators and not sensor domes


[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW_hGOFukMQ[/yt]


We see one blown up and the very next line is the bridge deflectors have gone done.

 

[SPCTRE]

Whoever voted "Rubbish" doesn't have a heart.

 

[Ithekro]

According to Wookiepedia the two domes are both sensor arrays and local area shield generators. They are heavily armored, but vulnerable to being rammed by small ships or heavy missile/torpedo attacks. The A-wings supposely fired a bunch of concussion missiles into the dome to blow it up.

 

[Marc]

According to Wookiepedia the two domes are both sensor arrays and local area shield generators. They are heavily armored, but vulnerable to being rammed by small ships or heavy missile/torpedo attacks. The A-wings supposely fired a bunch of concussion missiles into the dome to blow it up.

So once again the Empire under estimated the threat of a small one man ship.

 

[Ithekro]

I would gather that outside of a brawl like the Battle of Endor, the defenses of the vessel, any escorts, and its massive number of TIE Fighters should be able to keep starfighters away from the bridge tower. The ship is 19 km long.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The Executor went down after Ackbar's order to "concentrate all fire" on it. Without that order, it probably wouldn't have been at as grave a risk.

 

[Beagleman]

Star destroyers are awesome, so a super star destroyer can only be super-Awesome!

 

[J.T.B.]

I wonder if other legal terms are used as names. Is there a sister ship called the Testator?

 

[Hound of UIster]

Ehh... I like the look of the regular star destroyers a lot more. The Executor's rather ridonkulously oversized.

Great use of the word 'ridonkulously'

The destruction of the Executor was, among other things, I didn't like about "Return of the Jedi".

It was one of the few bits of shoddy effects work in an otherwise almost flawless performance from ILM. That final battle has yet to be topped in terms of space battles for me, and for a film that's thirty-two years old, that's some going.

The Executor was over-the-top - big time. But so was the Death Star - a lot more in fact. I love most of the ships in SW.

Get Lucas must have been happy with given he's never seen fit to have to it redone in any of the update versions.

I'm not sure how you could have redone it short of reworking the story on a scale larger than Greedo-shot-First.

 

[Galileo7]

... I like the look of the regular star destroyers a lot more. The Executor's rather ridonkulously oversized.

Agree.

 

[Admiral2]

I wonder if other legal terms are used as names. Is there a sister ship called the Testator?

"It is a dark time in the galaxy as task forces of Star Destroyers led by the command ships Solicitor, Barrister and Clerk make their way to the last refuges of the Rebel Fleet..."

 

[Marc]

Great use of the word 'ridonkulously'



It was one of the few bits of shoddy effects work in an otherwise almost flawless performance from ILM. That final battle has yet to be topped in terms of space battles for me, and for a film that's thirty-two years old, that's some going.

The Executor was over-the-top - big time. But so was the Death Star - a lot more in fact. I love most of the ships in SW.

Get Lucas must have been happy with given he's never seen fit to have to it redone in any of the update versions.

I'm not sure how you could have redone it short of reworking the story on a scale larger than Greedo-shot-First.

Referring more the to redoing the FX shots of the Executor collding with the death star. Given the zie of the ship etc it's a rather unspectuclar demise as noted up thread.

 

[Ithekro]

There might have been more, it cut during the giant fireball. A huge secondary explosion might have happened after than. But then they wouldn't want something to top the Death Star blowing up about five minutes later.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I wonder if other legal terms are used as names. Is there a sister ship called the Testator?

"It is a dark time in the galaxy as task forces of Star Destroyers led by the command ships Solicitor, Barrister and Clerk make their way to the last refuges of the Rebel Fleet..."

In the Star Wars universe, the Galactic Empire is represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The Stormtroopers, who investigate rebels; and Darth Vader, who Force-chokes the offenders.

These are their stories.

<doink-doink!>

 

[Ithekro]

I wonder if other legal terms are used as names. Is there a sister ship called the Testator?

"It is a dark time in the galaxy as task forces of Star Destroyers led by the command ships Solicitor, Barrister and Clerk make their way to the last refuges of the Rebel Fleet..."

In the Star Wars universe, the Galactic Empire is represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The Stormtroopers, who investigate rebels; and Darth Vader, who Force-chokes the offenders.

These are their stories.

<doink-doink!>

I'm pretty sure there is already a fan film or two about that.

 

[Richard Baker]

In the book the Executor's demise was a lot more interesting. As it tumbled in flames it ran into and destroyed a number of Star Destroyers, broke it's back and folded somewhat just before crashing into the Death Star 2's surface where it burned for a while.

 

[Marc]

In the book the Executor's demise was a lot more interesting. As it tumbled in flames it ran into and destroyed a number of Star Destroyers, broke it's back and folded somewhat just before crashing into the Death Star 2's surface where it burned for a while.

Don't remember the Executor breaking her back, but now you mention do remember that she collected a few other ships on the way to colliding with the Death Star II.

Just dug out my copy of the novelisation.

on the way to colliding, the Executor snagged 10 fighters, 2 cruisers and an ordance vessel.

The book also talks about the collision with the A-wing setting of explosions from power station to power station along the middle of the ship. That would give an good explaination for the sudden loss of control.

Oh and in the book, the bridge was hit by a proton torpedoes not an out of control A-wing. However the fighter that fired them gets taken out in the explosion.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

If you wanna see an original take on smashing a Super Star Destroyer into a large flat surface...

http://video.wired.com/watch/battle...-lego-super-star-destroyer-shattered?c=series

Mark

 

[Admiral2]

If you wanna see an original take on smashing a Super Star Destroyer into a large flat surface...

http://video.wired.com/watch/battle...-lego-super-star-destroyer-shattered?c=series

Mark

And Destroying the Lego Super Star Destroyer for the win!

 

[Marc]

If you wanna see an original take on smashing a Super Star Destroyer into a large flat surface...

http://video.wired.com/watch/battle...-lego-super-star-destroyer-shattered?c=series

Mark

And Destroying the Lego Super Star Destroyer for the win!

nice when you have the $1000 to buy that lego kit.